As a cold crisp Wednesday slips into evening, here are some more things going on:
From Free West Media, France has been hiding its real immigration figures for years.
From France24, listening to the last survivors of Auschwitz.
From RFI, pedestrians are the most at risk on the streets of Paris.
From El País, the former chief of the Catalan regional police seeks to distance himself from the Catalan independence leaders.
From The Portugal News, the Portuguese government alerts travelers to the Far East on the new coronavirus.
From SwissInfo, Switzerland records fewer cases of illegal immigration.
From EuroNews, according to the president of the International Red Cross, humanitarian organizations find climate change to be increasingly a concern.
From Euractiv, speaking in Davos, Switzerland, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promises a "green, digital, geopolitical" E.U.
From ANSA, Italian Foreign Minister quits as the leader of the 5-Star Movement party.
From the Malta Independent, for their roles in a riot at the Safi detention center, 22 migrants are each sentenced to nine months in prison and a fine of €800.
From Malta Today, Prime Minister Robert Abela promises that government reforms will turn Malta into a "full democracy".
From Total Slovenia News, Slovenia's Institute of Chemistry acquires an E.U. project to accelerate the development of Na-ion batteries.
From Total Croatia News, Vrgorac, Croatia opens a migrant donation center.
From Independent Balkan News Agency, the migration crisis leads to strikes on some Greek Aegean islands.
From Ekathimerini, a new space of arson attacks on cars strikes in Athens and its suburbs.
From the Greek Reporter, Greece elects its first female president.
From Novinite, Presidents Rumen Radev (Bulgaria) and Reuven Rivlin (Israel) discuss water resource management. (These two presidents have only one initial, the letter "r", between them.)
From The Sofia Globe, a flu epidemic is declared in the Bulgarian district of Montana.
From Radio Bulgaria, according to a poll, the main culprits in Bulgaria's water crisis are state institutions.
From Romania-Insider, Israeli President Rivlin plans to visit Romania this year.
From Russia Today, a Russian family fights against a rare genetic disorder, and to obtain the medicine which can treat it.
From Sputnik International, Russian Prime Minister Mishustin signs the decree to approve his new government.
From The Moscow Times, Russia reportedly suspects its first case of the new coronavirus.
From Daily News Hungary, a Somali man is arrested for allegedly raping a woman in Budapest.
From Hungary Today, a drone powered by a hydrogen fuel cell is developed in Hungary.
From About Hungary, according to Hungarian Finance Minister Mihály Varga, the E.U. must not disproportionally impose climate strategy costs.
From The Slovak Spectator, a documentary made by a Slovak director will be viewed at the Berlinale film festival.
From Radio Prague, Teplice, Czech Republic will send the relics of St. Clari to an exhibition in Dubai.
From Polskie Radio, the head of the World Jewish Congress will go to Poland to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, rather than go to Israel.
From the CPH Post, Denmark will crack down on anti-Semitism.
From Deutsche Welle, the "angel of death" and his birthplace.
From the NL Times, Dutch police found nearly 1,480 illegal migrants hidden in trucks and containers in 2019.
From Dutch News, lead water pipes are still a problem in Amsterdam. (If you read Dutch, read a related story in De Volkskrant.)
From VRT NWS, "dirty snow" falls in Belgium.
From the Express, the U.K. House of Lords backs down and votes in favor of passing Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit Bill.
From the Evening Standard, an Extinction Rebellion protester climbs Big Ben and claims "climate change anxiety" as his reason. (The line between "badass" and "stupid people" can be very thin, but since what he did was illegal, I'm giving him the latter.)
From the (U.K.) Independent, in the city where knives are illegal, criminals are hiding them in playgrounds and parks.
From the (Irish) Independent, for Valentine's Day, a pub in Dublin will go to the dogs.
From the Irish Examiner, no additional measures have been introduced at the Dublin International Airport in response to the coronavirus, so far.
From The Conservative Woman, the U.K. government will ask about sex and gender, if they differ, on its 2021 census.
And from Snouts in the Trough, environmental problems along the Mekong River are not caused by climate change, but by dams.
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